Maria is a classicist, currently working as a Training and Education Officer at the Graduate School of The Cyprus Institute. She holds a PhD and an MSc in Classics from the University of Edinburgh (both funded by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh), and a BA in Classics from the University of Cyprus. In the past, she worked as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Bamberg in the ERC-Starting Grant project “ACO-The Proceedings of the Ecumenical Councils from Oral Utterance to Manuscript Edition as Evidence for Late Antique Persuasion and Self-Representation Techniques”. In this role, she prepared the translation of the proceedings of the Council of Constantinople and Jerusalem of 536 (translation to be published in the series “Translated Texts for Historians” of Liverpool University Press) and published articles on various aspects of the ancient church councils. She has taught Ancient Greek and classical civilization at the University of Edinburgh and the Open University of Cyprus, as well as Modern Greek language and literature at the Hellenic School of St Andrew and Fettes College in Edinburgh. She has extensive experience in the composition of EU project proposals and the coordination of EU projects, having worked as a senior EU project officer in the past and currently managing EU projects at The Cyprus Institute. Her research interests include Hellenistic poetry and religion, translation studies, ancient church councils, ecclesiastical and Roman law, but also education and cultural heritage and the integration of technology in education.